customer
Meanings
Plural: customers
Noun
- someone who pays for goods or services
- A habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client; a person or company who has a custom of buying from a particular business.
- A patron, a client; a person or company who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so.
- A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.
- A native official who exacted customs duties.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English customere, custommere, from Old French coustumier, costumier (compare modern French coutumier), from Medieval Latin custumarius (“a toll-gatherer, tax-collector”, noun), from custumarius (“pertaining to custom or customs”, adjective), from custuma (“custom, tax”). More at custom. By surface analysis, custom + -er.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
customer is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordcustomer is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
customer is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 15
customer is a valid Words With Friends word